AN UNCOMMON THOUGHT

"The real trick to life is not to be in the know, but to be in the mystery."

-Fred Alan Wolf

02 February 2017

Splendor.

People cannot stand the saddest truth I know about the very
nature of reading and writing imaginative literature, which is that poetry does
not teach us how to talk to other people: it teaches us how to talk to ourselves. Art is perfectly useless, according to
the sublime Oscar Wilde, who was right about everything. He also told us that
all bad poetry is sincere. Had I the power to do so, I would command that these
words be engraved above every gate at every university, so that each student
might ponder the splendor of the insight.